ALGERIA

Algeria Plans Exploration Drive 

The Algerian Government has approved a number of measures aimed at trebling exploration drilling by the end of the current five-year plan in 1989. These apparently envisage greater foreign participation in oil exploration in Algeria.

According to the Algiers daily El Moudjahid, the Cabinet, after reviewing the situation at a meeting on 13 February, concluded that Algeria's exploration program to date had failed to provide seismic data of...